Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) Blu-ray 3D [Region Locked]

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Originally Posted by UFAlien

To be honest it's pretty hard to try and figure out a way to continue the first movie's plot from where it was. It had a fairly definitive ending. It just feels like Bassett didn't particularly try and just ignored most of the plot of the first movie for convenience's sake. I'm incredibly curious as to what Gans and co. would have come up with if they made the sequel as originally planned. If the producers really were pushing for an SH3 adaptation even when Gans was attached, I feel like it still would've been at least a bit contrived... the Silent Hill movie plot and SH3's plot really just don't fit together at all.

If anyone could make something as weird as that work I think Gans could be the person. Revelation took the hollywood slasher approach which is the complete opposite of what was needed. Sure Silent Hill gets very violent at the end, but for the most part is a slow build without the slasher kills and the kills actually have meaning beyond. I don't think any of the kills in the first film where enjoyable to watch and nor where they meant to be. Revelation seems to bask in the idea of enjoying watching silly gimmicky deaths, which is absolutely not what Silent Hill is about.

The thing people remember most about the games (minus homecoming) is the sense of isolation and despair it creates. The first film replicates this faithfully (albeit not as fleshed out as the games due to time constraints), and one thing it does better then the games is the 'cult'. Revelations barely has any scene without 'Heather' interacting with someone, nor does it have any unique twists such as Rose running past her husband when she is in Silent Hill and he is in 'our world' and he can fell/smell her.

I do wonder how many of the problems where caused by a very limited budget (the scenes in the darkness just where not as well realized as in the original film, nor where the monsters [in particular the big bad]) and what seems to have been a very rushed schedule. It makes me sad that this game adaption series ended this way. It isn't like The Descent where their really was no where left to go, their was plenty of things one could have done. Basset simply managed to completely botch the story. Still dat 3d (minus the look at me pop outs). They could have even taking cues from Silent Hill 4,

[Show spoiler]and not have the charcters in Silent Hill

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